Ann Brashares
Ann Brashares
Ann Brashares is an American writer of young adult fiction. She is best known as the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth30 July 1967
CityAlexandria, VA
CountryUnited States of America
kids dark lunch
Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose.
sister writing people
Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
looks way expected
Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
falling-in-love fall people
There are some people who fall in love over and over.
memories promise good-memories
One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.
caring quality gone
There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.
ordinary turns careful
You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
grandmother wish want
Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
happenings
Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
needs sometimes mess
Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
falling-in-love guy feelings
If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.
roots joy putting-yourself-out-there
It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
color blue pants
And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
makeup hair sight
People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight--at least as they normally experienced them....Some people lost their individuality in the water, but Riley always felt most herself. Water was supposed to symbolize renewal, she knew, but when Riley swam, pared down, alone, and unreachable--she felt a deeper sense of who she already was.